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What are the main festivals in Thailand
Thailand has a lot of festivals and celebrations, bazaars, seasonal sports, as well as many religious ceremonies. And these festivals enrich the tourists' journey. No matter what month or season you visit Thailand, you are sure to have a great time.
The time of the year - the first month
The Umbrella Festival - dedicated to the art of making beautiful traditional umbrellas in the village of BoSang, Chiang Mai.
Renewal - February
Festival of Flowers - Chiang Mai's colorful flowers will make you feel like you are in heaven.
Fullness of Dharma - March
Buddhist holy day - MakhaBucha.
Summer heat - April
Songkran. --The traditional Thai New Year, which falls on the 12th to 14th of the month. There are also grand religious celebrations, mesmerizing beauty pageants and night parades during this time. During the New Year, the SanamLuang grassy field opposite the Royal Palace in Bangkok is the focal point of the festivities. However, many will also choose to visit Chiang Mai to spend the Water Festival with the enthusiastic local Thais***. At ChonBuri in Pattaya City, crowds of people celebrate the Pattaya Festival. There are parties, flower shows, floats, parades, beauty pageants, fireworks and more. 。。。。 And many more.
Celebrating Buddha's Birthday - May
VisakhaBucha, the day of Siddhartha Gautama's Nirvana, is celebrated with a candlelight procession to celebrate the holiest of Buddhists.
In Bangkok's Sanam Luang meadow, the classical Brahman ceremony, a royal plowing celebration, is held in May to celebrate good weather and a good rice harvest.
Poetry Floats - June
RayongSunthonPhu Day - culturally colorful. At BanKram's Memorial Park, poets commemorate the Rattanakosin poems with poetry readings and stage performances of songs and dances.
Stars and Lights - July
Kesar Sabha Day - During this period, monks stay in the monastery and do not travel far.
Beautiful candles reflect the temple during the Candle Light Festival at UbonRatchathani in the northeast.
The full moon day on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month is AsanahaBucha, which commemorates the first time the Buddha spoke to the five bhikkhus after his attainment of enlightenment.
Illuminations - August
Queen's Birthday - On August 12, Bangkok will celebrate the birth of the Queen of Thailand with illuminations near the Grand Palace and on Ratchadamnoen Street.
Hustle and bustle - September
Mid-Autumn Festival - Chinese people pay homage to the moon or Heavenly Mother on the Mid-Autumn Festival. This is when there will be large dragon dances, lion dances, lantern parades and other folk contraptions to add to the hustle and bustle. It's also time for boat races. The famous Korlae boat races and Narathiwat celebrations are held at Narathiwat and BangnaraRiver.
Excitement and Thrill - October
This is the month of the famous LannaBoatRaces. During the races, colorful boats compete against each other.
The annual kathina is also held in October.
The LagunaPhuket Ironman Race attracts some of the world's first-class competitors. At once, it becomes the center of attention of the world.
Cool Breeze - November
Yellow flowers everywhere. The northern hill country, especially the mountains of Night Phongsong province, are transformed into a sea of yellow flowers by sunflowers (MexicanSunflower). A great spectacle!
The Water Lantern Festival, a folk event that has been passed down in Thailand for more than seven hundred years, is held along the Ping River in Chiang Mai. On this day, men, women and children will change into clean and neat clothes, with their homemade cool lotus water lanterns, and inserted inside the water lanterns burning incense, candles, and add some rice, sprinkle a little rice wine, coins, and then put on the river. It is rumored that Sukhothai is the birthplace of the Meeting of Lights, the Water Lantern Festival. Today, Ayutthaya also celebrates the Meeting of Lights. At this time, folk songs and dances are performed in the light of these candles.
At RiverKwai Bridge Week in Phetchaburi, travelers can see the Dance of Light and a rare antique train.
In Surin, elephants perform tug-of-war and tug-of-war. At PrangSamYot and PhraKanShrine in Lopburi, 500 monkeys entertain travelers with a Chinese feast of Thai fruits and desserts.
Long Live the King - December
The traditional games in Bangkok are filled with years of Thai tradition and culture. The world-famous Phuket King's Cup Boat Race is held in the Andaman Sea. On December 5, the King's birthday, the people of the country decorate the city with lights in honor of the King, and the I-San Kite Festival in Buri Ram is well worth a visit. At the event, you will see kites of all sizes and shapes. You can also see a long and exciting kite fight.
Public **** Holidays
New Year's Day January 1 MakhaBucha February 21
Jogi Dynasty Memorial Day April 6 Water Splashing Festival April 12-14
Coronation Celebration May 5 Ashaitan Festival July Full Moon Day
Queen's Birthday August 12
Chulalongkorn Festival is held in the city. p>
Chulalongkorn Chulalongkorn Remembrance Day October 23
King's Birthday December 5 Constitution Remembrance Day December 10
New Year's Eve December 31
Nine Emperor's Lent: Held every year in September and October, the festival is celebrated for nine days in a row. During the nine days and nine nights of the festival, devotees of the Nine Emperor's Fast change to a vegetarian diet, stop entertainment, and hold various ceremonies at the city's five main Buddhist temples. The streets are full of all sorts of fasting tributes and food, above a yellow flag, or plastered with yellow paper banners written with the words "clean fasting" for the faithful to take off the colorful clothing, put on a clean white coat and white pants, sincere fasting and bathing, to the Buddhist temple incense, worship Nine Emperor Rituals, in order to pray for the family's good fortune and peace, all things go smoothly. The celebration culminates on the last night, with the ceremony starting at midnight and continuing through the night.
Songkran: The festival is celebrated by flying the national flag, bathing the Buddha, bathing the monks, and sprinkling water on the elders to pray for blessings. Therefore, people also call this festival "Water Festival". As the Thai New Year, Songkran has a lot of good intentions, first of all, to be grateful, to thank and honor those who do good deeds and are beneficial to society; secondly, to be loyal to ancestors; thirdly, to remember one's responsibility to the family; and to celebrate Buddhism and monks; and finally, to advocate kindness and generosity. The annual Songkran Water Festival is celebrated from April 13th to 15th each year. Traditionally, the first ceremony in the early morning of Songkran is a blessing, where the younger generation lines up to pay their respects to the elders in the hope of receiving blessings from them, and to seek good fortune for the coming year. During these three days, the whole country comes alive with large-scale celebrations and the "Miss Songkran" beauty pageant. The streets of Bangkok are crowded with locals and tourists alike, enjoying splashing water, exchanging congratulations and best wishes, and, especially in the hot weather, getting wet to beat the heat. During the Songkran Festival in Bangkok splashing the most lively place is the Royal Field Square near the Grand Palace, water guns, masks and hoses are on the battlefield, some people are not only soaking wet, but also "color", that is, coated with a full body and face of the white talcum powder. The best place to visit in the country is Chiang Mai. The Songkran festival is fun and auspicious.
Loy Krathong: The festival is the most meaningful and mythological festival in Thai folklore, and is held on the night of December 15 of the Thai calendar every year. In this period after the rainy season, Thailand is the river is high, the moon is a beautiful season. The most lively place to celebrate the festival is Sukhothai City, the ancient capital of the Sukhothai Dynasty, where the water lanterns originated. There is an ancient temple in the ancient city, which is located on a small island in the middle of the lake, where the public and tourists gather during the festival to float and release the water lanterns. The celebrations begin with a lantern design and Miss Lantern beauty contest, as well as a parade of costumed elephants, horses, and floats, making it feel as if you've stepped back in time to the old Sukhothai days. The annual Thai Loy Krathong Festival is celebrated all over the country in a charming and romantic atmosphere, with people celebrating the festival with joy. In the evening, when the festival is in full swing, people go to the rivers and harbors to cast water lanterns, and the rivers are lit up with lights. Young men and women are in love with each other, women praying for a husband of their choice, and men hoping to find a beautiful partner. The general public, on the other hand, thanked the God of Heaven and Earth and the God of Water for giving them edible water for a year, and expressed their repentance for throwing dirt into the rivers, praying for forgiveness of their sins and living a peaceful and happy life.
Spring Plowing Festival: Every year in May is the annual Spring Plowing Festival in Thailand. The Thai nation has been a country of agriculture since ancient times, and the agricultural population still accounts for about 80% of the Thai population. So the whole country regards this day as a grand festival, the king and the royal family, the government leaders will attend the ceremony held in Bangkok, the royal family field of the Spring Festival ceremony. The day is also declared a national holiday as a sign of pomp and circumstance. The Thai Spring Plowing Festival began in the Sukhothai Dynasty and has been held with great pomp and circumstance throughout the dynasties and continues to this day. It is a festival to pray for favorable weather conditions and a good agricultural harvest. On the day before the festival, the king and members of the royal family first go to the Jade Buddha Temple to officiate at the Buddha ceremony, where ten monks recite auspicious sutras, and then the king presents holy water, the royal ring and the royal sword to the Minister of Agriculture for the spring plowing ceremony. At the same time, the "Master Plowman" and the "Four Fairies", who were to participate in the Spring Plowing Ceremony on the following day, also went to the Jade Buddha Temple to pay homage to the Jade Buddha and receive the King's blessings. The "Master Plowman" is the Minister of Agriculture, and the "Four Fairies" are female agricultural and forestry scientists from the Ministry of Agriculture. The king gives the "Four Fairies" holy water to bathe in before the ceremony. At 7:30 a.m. on the day of the Spring Plowing Festival, the Brahmin priests, led by the "main pear officer", the "four fairies" and the ancient orchestra, set off from the Jade Buddha Temple, with two of the "four fairies" carrying gold and silver burdens. Each of the "Four Fairies" carried a gold and silver stretcher, and the colorful gold and silver stretcher was filled with the king's best seeds in the royal palace. The band played all the way to the site of the ceremony at Wangjatan and waited for the king to arrive. Around eight o'clock, the spring plowing festival ceremony began, first by the king and queen of incense and candles, worship of the gods, and then the main ploughman worship the gods, praying for the divination of the year's rainfall, divination of rainfall prophecy with three pieces of white cloth, the first piece of a meter long, said that the rainfall is more than a good harvest on the plateau, the lowland fields failed; the second piece of cloth a meter long, fifty-five, prophesy sufficient rainfall, rice cereals in general, a good harvest, the third piece of cloth a half-meter long, prophesying that rainfall is less than the lowland fields, a good harvest; second piece of cloth a meter long, fifty-five, predicts adequate rainfall, rice grain generally abundant harvest, third piece of cloth a half-meter long, predicts less rain. The third piece of cloth is half a meter long, predicting a good harvest in the lowland fields and a poor harvest in the highland fields. The chief ploughman would draw one of the cloths and predict the amount of rain and the harvest for that year. After divining the amount of rain, the two sacred cows were brought to the king and powdered, after which the Brahmin priests led the sacred cows, the "main ploughman", the "four nymphs and the ancient orchestra to start plowing, and the "main ploughman" drove the sacred cows to loosen the soil, plough the ground and sow the seeds and mulch the soil for three rounds each. The "main plow official" drives the sacred ox to loosen the soil, plow the ground, and sow and mulch the soil three times each, while the "four fairies" then sow 40 kilograms of rice seeds. After the plowing was completed, the sacred ox was brought to the divination platform where the royal Brahmins would observe the astrological signs and choose to eat seven kinds of food, namely, rice, corn, mung beans, sesame seeds, grass, water and wine, in order to foretell a good harvest of this kind of food that year. If you choose to eat water and grass, it is a symbol of abundant rainfall and good weather; if you choose to eat wine, it is a symbol of convenient transportation and economic prosperity. After the ceremony, the king awards prizes to the farmers with the highest rice production in each province and the best agricultural cooperatives last year, and the Spring Plowing Festival Ceremony comes to an end. At this time, thousands of people who had gathered in the King's field crowded into the square to pick up the sown rice seeds, and some children sold the collected rice at a high price to the farmers who came from the remote areas to pick up the rice seeds, which they sowed in their own fields for good luck and a good harvest. " The annual spring plowing ceremony is both grand and strongly characterized by Thai ethnic customs, thus attracting many people and tourists from home and abroad to watch.
Buddha Day: short for "Buddhist festival". Buddhism called "Lent", Thailand called "Buddha Day". There are four Buddha Day every month, each in the first half of the Thai lunar calendar on the eighth and fifteenth, that is, the eighth, the month of hope, twenty-three, the end of the month. There are 48 Buddha Days throughout the year***, with the most important ones being the Marga Puja on the 15th day of the 3rd month of the lunar calendar, the Vesak Puja on the 15th day of the 6th month, and the Asagha Puja on the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar. On that occasion, Buddhists go to Buddhist temples to perform rituals. Killing, prostitution and gambling are prohibited on that day.
Ten Thousand Buddhas Festival: Thailand's traditional Buddhist festival, held on the 15th day of the third month of the Thai calendar every year. In the event of a year of peace, it is changed to April 15 on the Thai calendar. Ten Thousand Buddhas Festival in Thai known as the "Chak Tuk Lung Ka Sang Nipa" festival, according to legend, the founder of Buddhism, Siddhartha Gautama, on the 15th day of the third month of the Thai calendar in the Magadha Kingdom of the King's House in the Bamboo Garden Hall, to the automatic gathering of 1,250 Lohan first publicized the teachings of the four sides of the assembly, it is known as a rally with the. Thai Buddhists, who believe in Hinayana Buddhism, commemorate this gathering as the date of the founding of Buddhism. Thai Buddhists began to commemorate the festival as early as during the Ayutthaya Dynasty, and under King V of the Bangkok Dynasty, official ceremonies began to be held, and in 1913 the day was designated as a holiday and became a traditional Buddhist festival for the Thai people. The government also celebrates the festival with a ceremony attended by the King himself. On the morning of the day, Thai men, women and children bring flowers, incense and alms to nearby temples to offer fasting, burn incense and pay homage to the Buddha. In the Ten Thousand Buddhas Festival, some good men and women also take the five precepts or eight precepts to show their devotion to Buddhism.
Sambodhi Festival: one of the three major Buddhist festivals in Thailand. Every year on the 15th day of the 8th month of the Thai calendar, that is, one day before the Thai summer festival, for the "Asarat Hapcha Festival". "Asarat Hapcha" comes from the Pali language, meaning "August offerings" meaning. Thai Chinese call this festival the "Three Treasures Festival" because it is the day when the Buddha preached his first sermon after he became a Buddhist; the day when the first Buddhist disciple was born; the day when the first monk appeared in the world; and the day when the "Three Treasures" of Buddhism (the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Sangha) were all in place. Originally, the festival did not do the ceremony, in 1961 the Thai Sangha (Sangha) made a decision to require Buddhists to do the ceremony, and by the government with the consent of the King as an important festival of Buddhism. Buddhists and Buddhist temples all over the country do rituals, such as observing the precepts, listening to the sutra, chanting, preaching, candlelight patrol and so on.
Shouxia Festival: also known as Sit Shouju Festival, Summer Festival, Rain Festival, etc., is Thailand's most important traditional Buddhist festival, held every year on the 16th day of the eighth month of the Thai calendar. Shouxia Festival in Thai is called "Khao Phang Sa". The word comes from the Vaipan language, "khao" means "to enter" and "phansa" means "rainy season", "rainy season", "rainy period". The festival originates from the ancient Indian custom of monks and nuns to stay in peace during the rainy season. It is believed that during the three months from August 16 to November 15 of the Thai calendar, it is easy to go out and hurt the rice and grass insects, so they should sit and study in the temple and receive offerings. This period of time is known as the rain and peace period, monks and nuns are prohibited from going out. The Thai government provides a one-day nationwide vacation for the summer festival so that people can participate in the festival. Before the festival, the monks have to clean the temple and monasteries. On the day of the festival, all monks in the temple hold a ceremony to enter the summer and live in peace, salute the Buddha and recite the sutra and recite "poor Taoist will live in peace in this temple to keep the summer for three months" three times. The monks then confess their faults to the senior monks. After that, the monasteries and the monks exchange flowers, incense and candles in honor of each other and in repentance. After the ceremony, the monks begin to live in peace and study. In the morning of the summer festival, it is common for the common people to go to the monasteries to offer fasting, which consists of freshly prepared rice dishes and traditional pastries such as banana leaf ziba. At the same time, candles, sugar cane water, sugar, toothbrushes, toothpaste, soap, bath towels and other daily necessities are offered. In addition, huge candles are made that can be burned for up to three months and are brought to the temples with drums and gongs for the monks to use when chanting during the summer festival. In the evening, the festival culminates in a grand candle-carrying ceremony at the temple with flowers and lighted candles. During the festival, many men and women will leave their homes for three months, either to listen to the monks chanting sutras every day or to observe the eight precepts of Buddhism at home to show their devotion to Buddhism.
Xiexia Festival: Every year on the 15th day of the 11th month of the Thai calendar for Thailand's Xiexia Festival, also known as the Xiexia Festival, over the rain festival, Anjou Bidding Festival, etc., is one of the most important traditional Buddhist festivals in Thailand. This is the time when the three-month period of keeping the summer peace is over and the monks can go out normally again. On this day, the common people make a solemn fast in the temple and listen to the monks recite Buddhist scriptures. The statue of Buddha is taken out of the temple and placed in a movable pavilion. The statue of Buddha is placed on a monk's bowl, and the monks follow the statue with the bowl in their hands, and the alms are put into the bowl by the men and women sitting in a line. The alms mainly include rice, dishes, sticky rice dumplings with plantain and coconut leaf dumplings with yatta. When almsgiving is held at the Temple of the Golden Mountain in Bangkok, the statue of Buddha is moved from the Temple to the foot of the mountain for almsgiving. In addition, on the occasion of the festival, people will also offer monk's clothes, keep the summer monk's clothes and give yellow cloth and other charity activities.
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